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Peugeot 205 T16 Homologation car Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 Evo 2. To homologate the 205 T16 ("Turbo 16" in France) Group B rally car, Peugeot had to produce 200 road-going examples. According to the Group B regulations, these had to be based on a current production road car. Peugeot decided to base the Group B rally car on the two door version of.


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This 205 T16, the star of the Silverstone Auctions first online sale on Saturday May 23, was built by Peugeot Sport UK under the guidance of the legendary Des O'Dell. It was commissioned by wealthy American Real Estate Developer and rally driver Jon Woodner, who campaigned it with great success in the US between late 1984 and 1988.


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The Peugeot 205 Turbo 16, in rally form, was a car that largely dominated the last two years of Group B competition - the Group B era being referred to by some as the "Golden Age of Rallying." This was a very well designed and constructed competition car and the engineers had applied great attention to detail to make it as easy to repair.


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205 T16 technical view. The engineers chose to build the motor around Peugeot's new "XU" line of stout diesel engines but with a much modified DOHC 16 valve head to run gasoline. Since the engine was to be turbocharged, a displacement of 1775 cc was chosen due to the Group B forced induction x1.4 multiplier.


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Peugeot 205 T16. One of the most. Although it shared its name with the humble 205 hatchback, the rally car was almost completely purpose-built and shared very little in common with the car.


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1986 Sanremo Rally. Peugeot headed for the Sanremo Rally with a healthy lead in the Manufacturer's standings, but that was all about to change. The only good news in Italy was that Ari Vatanen and Terry Harryman were back after their horrific accident on the 1985 Argentine Rally. They attended in an Evolution 2 recce car for PTS.


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Soon surpassing the 5000 cars needed for homologation, it inspired two successors - the 106 and 306 Rallyes - and perhaps even sketched the outlines of later, more hardcore offshoots of mainstream hot hatches. Introduced in 1988, the Peugeot 205 Rallye gave hot-hatch enthusiasts an affordable taste of rally-stage thrills.


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The Peugeot 205 Group B rally car was introduced for 1984. An incredibly successful rally car, the 205 Group B won the 1985 and 1986 constructor and drivers World Rally Group B Championship. Two evolutions were built, Evolution 1, which was the first twenty examples produced, and then the Evolution 2, which was built until the end of Group B.


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Of all the manufacturers that created Group B specials between 1982 and 1986, none invested more than Peugeot. In addition to the scratch-built 205 T16, a completely new competition department was established in the outskirts of Paris where a team of 90 personnel focused on developing the best rally car possible.


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The pearl-white Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 'Serie 200' homologation cars are desired by rally-car collectors worldwide. Now, Aguttes is selling the most desirable one - an early example kept by Automobiles Peugeot for three years under the supervision of Jean Todt.


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The two remaining cars were "cannibalised" to build the amazing 405 T16, with a return at Pikes Peak the following two years - claiming overall victory for 1988 and 1989. In 2018, Austrian Peugeot collector Erich Müller completed a replica of the famous 1987 Pikes Peak 205 Turbo 16s. Since all of the original cars used for the race were.


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Thus, Peugeot settled on using the design of the 205 as the basis for building its rally car. The rally car featured an XU engine with a 16-valve head and a gearbox from the Citroen SM. Additionally, the engine was moved from the front (like in the original 205) to the rear and the car was transformed from a two-wheel to a four-wheel drive.


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It's hard to grasp the Peugeot 205 T16's story, even as one of the most successful and fearsome rally cars ever built, a cute French hatchback sawed in half then raised up like a lofted bed.


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Peugeot of course had to produce road going versions of the car, so it would be accepted under homologation for the WRC. This was the regular 205 T16 with the Evo 2 becoming the ultimate rally version of the car. Peugeot would have to make 200 road-going examples, with the rally car base don the two-door version of the 205.


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The rally career of the 205 T16 started in 1984 and right away, the little Peugeot displayed great potential. To start with, it had a lot more power than the standard version and racing examples had over 500 horsepower (the street version had 200 bhp). With a lighter body and excellent components, the 205 T16 Rally was sublimely fast.


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The Peugeot 205 T16 is the legendary Group B turbocharged four-wheel-drive rally car produced by Peugeot between 1983 and 1988. 205 T16s won 16 World Championship rallies between 1984 and 1986 in the hands of Ari Vatanen, Timo Salonen, Juha Kankkunen and Bruno Saby, and lifted both the manufacturers' and drivers' titles in 1985 and 1986 in the hands of Timon Salonen and Juha Kankkunen.

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